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The present paper is a taxanomic account of seven species of gastrotrichs (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotidae) collected from Calcutta and its adjacent areas (Lower Bengal). All the reported species represent new records from the north-eastern region of this subcontinent and three of them are new records from India.
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Sharma, B.K. Taxonomic notes on some freshwater Gastrotricha from West Bengal, India. Hydrobiologia 70, 265–267 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00016769
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